The gloves would become a signature of her whimsical style and mark her first foray into fashion. “I wore them around, and people thought they were very expensive,” Grewal says.

Queen of Stripes: Grewal wears her own Hardly Alice line of clothing, all of which she creates right here in her apartment.

“I’m never quite sure why I pick the things I pick,” Grewal says. “They call out to me, and then I wear them until I’m tired.”

“It’s kind of wonderful to shake people’s expectations in a way that makes them charmed rather than repulsed.”
Read more from the article by Liz Johnstone from D Magazine July 2014 here http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/how-dallas-dresses-gwenda-lin-grewal